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Credited with the discovery of Penicillin
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Sir Alexander Fleming
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Current reigning monarch
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Queen Elizabeth II
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Only Prime Minister ever to be assassinated
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Spencer Perceval
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World War II fighter pilot who lost both legs
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Sir Douglas Bader
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Executed for High Treason for making pro-Nazi propaganda radio broadcasts to Britain during World War II
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Lord Haw Haw
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Founder of the Scout Movement
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Robert Baden-Powell
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Famous TV naturalist who presented, among others, "Life on Earth" and "Blue Planet"
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Sir David Attenborough
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Tyrannical Tudor king who had six wives
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Henry VIII
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Doctor _____________ I presume?
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David Livingstone
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Leading Parliamentarian who served as Lord Protector
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Oliver Cromwell
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Gave the "Rivers of Blood" speech
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Enoch Powell
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Creator of Sherlock Holmes
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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Most famous Elizabethan and Jacobean playwright
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William Shakespeare
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Discovered evolution
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Charles Darwin
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Wrote "Oliver Twist", "A Christmas Carol" and "David Copperfield"
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Charles Dickens
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Creator of Poirot and Miss Marple
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Agatha Christie
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Defeated Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815
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Duke of Wellington
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British officer who was key in establishing British East India Company Rule in Bengal
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Clive of India
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Inventor of the telephone
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Alexander Graham Bell
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Mystery serial killer who struck at least five times in Whitechapel in 1888
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Jack the Ripper
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Suffragette who died after throwing herself in front of the King's racehorse at Epsom in 1913
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Emily Davison
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First sitting female MP in Britain
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Nancy Astor
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British commander in the Anglo-Zulu war. In command during the battles of Isandhlwana, Rorke's Drift and Ulundi
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Lord Chelmsford
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Archbishop of Canterbury who was murdered on the orders of king Henry II
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St Thomas Becket
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All-rounder who captained the England Cricket Team and played between 1998 and 2009. Nickname Freddie.
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Andrew Flintoff
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Rapper who sings "Dance wiv me" and "Bonkers"
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Dizzee Rascal
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Beatle who was assassinated in New York
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John Lennon
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Hangman who executed at least 400 people between 1932 and 1956
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Albert Pierrepoint
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Popular Princess killed in a car crash in 1997
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Princess Diana
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Footballer whose hat-trick won England the 1966 World Cup
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Sir Geoff Hurst
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Caught trying to blow up the Houses of Parliament
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Guy Fawkes
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Prime Minister during World War II (May 1940-July 1945)
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Sir Winston Churchill
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Legendary admiral in the Royal Navy who was killed at Trafalgar in 1805
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Horatio Nelson
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Iceni Queen who led revolt against Roman rule in c.60 AD
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Boudicca
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Royal Navy captain famous for his voyages of exploration on HM Bark Endeavour
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James Cook
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Famous actor who played, among other things, Gandalf in "The Lord of the Rings"
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Sir Ian McKellen
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Poet Laureate who wrote "The Charge of the Light Brigade"
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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Mythical King of Camelot
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King Arthur
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Last Anglo-Saxon king defeated by William the Conqueror
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Harold II
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Leading anti-slavery campaigner
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William Wilberforce
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Braveheart
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William Wallace
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First female Prime Minister
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Margaret Thatcher
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Composer of "The Planets"
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Gustav Holst
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Somali-born athlete who won 10,000m and 5000m gold at the 2012 Olympics
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Mo Farah
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Queen who saw the huge development of technology and the expansion of the British Empire
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Queen Victoria
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